NAEA Need to Know Webcast: Visual Journaling in a Self-Study: Exploring Intersectional Issues of Professional Practice

NAEA Need to Know Webcast: Visual Journaling in a Self-Study: Exploring Intersectional Issues of Professional Practice
January 27, 2022
Cost: FREE

Presenters: 

Sheri R. Klein
Interdisciplinary Artist, Educator, and Scholar
Founder & Creative Director, Braided Streams LLC

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Self-study is a methodology for self-inquiry used by practitioner–researchers across many disciplines. It is guided by questions focused on professional practice issues with the aims of self-awareness, professional growth, and professional goal setting. Within a self-study, a visual journal can document the processes of professional inquiry and serve as a rich source for arts-based data that can be interpreted for themes, insights, and new questions about professional practice. Drawing upon the text, Becoming a Visually Reflective Practitioner: An Integrated Self-Study Model for Professional Practice (Sheri R. Klein and Kathy Marzilli Miraglia, 2021, Intellect), the presenter–researcher will discuss arts-based self-study as a useful research methodology for art educators to explore issues related to professional practice. The purposes of and considerations for a visual journal will be outlined using examples from the presenter/researcher’s self-study journal.

Participants will learn:
• ways to explore areas of professional practice using prompts and questions to guide inquiry
• various methods and processes for the interpretation of written and visual journal data, and
• how to use outcomes of self-study to further guide professional practice.

To conclude, the presenter–researcher will share some of the “lessons learned” and the benefits and challenges of visual journaling in a self-study. This webinar is designed for visual arts practitioners (art teachers, graduate students, university faculty, independent artists, activists, arts administrators, and/or museum educators) at any level of practice who are interested in reflective practice, professional development, self-study as a research methodology, and/or using arts-based methods within their research.

Please note that participation in this webcast does not include NAEA professional development credit.